Time magazine has picked Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell as its ‘Book of the Year’ in its Best and Worst of 2004.

As others have noted, The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami is the place to go for news and such on the Boxing Day tragedy. Do what you can. Give what you can. Our thoughts go out to Locus colleague Nick Gevers, whose brother was holidaying in the area and hopefully will turn up alive and well.